The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-17
Industrial and Manufacturing Notes.

Industrial and Man ufacturinc Notes.
Pearson & WeSzel paid yesterday $1.373 90
duty on seventy eight crates OF earthenware i'm
ported from England.
part of the State, and this section will begin by
the middle OF next week.
Chandler 81 Taylor yesterday shipped a
forty horse power engine and boiler to Knoxville,
Tenn, and another to Montgomery, Ala.
ID. Williamson has commenced the erection of
a planning mill. sash and blind factory the
line of the belt road, near McGregor's stave
mandatory.
The Belt road and Stockyards Company are
asking for bids for the erection OF another shed
with 200 pens, the same dimensions of the five
sheds now in use
The Hadley Shoe Company have completed
the repairs to their building, which was dam
aged by fire short time ago. aid have resumed
work full time and full handed.
Nearly all Of the large manufacturing estab-
lishments have adopted the practice of shutting
down but half hour at noon. thus enabling
them TO shut down at $50 p. NJ The mechanics
and machinists seem to like the arrangement
Local manufacturers are much troubled to get
sufficient Quantities OF scrap iron to keep them in
operation. At the works number of hands
have been laid off temporarily. troubled is the
company to get scrap iron and old wheels to mix
in with the ore.
The trade in fruit jars this season is large be.
yond parallel. The season is by no means over,
and Hollwee 81 Reese have shipped out over TO-,
are now supplying a large per cent of Illinois.
Kentucky. Missouri and Kansas with jars.
Trade with the Indianapolis stove works, as
usual in June. has dropped off somewhat, and
for the first time in eighteen months they are
stocking up ahead little. The company do not
now expect to shut down their works through
the heated term, however, as they usually do.
The malleabls-iron works contemplate making
still further additions to their present establish
ment They now give employment to $50 men
and boys, and still behind considerably in
their orders. The department. for manu-
featuring chain is now in full operation and is a
success
r. B. Wheeler, of Philadelphia and quite a
number of buyers of hardwood lumber from
other Eastern points are in the city making
purchases. One manufacturer from San Fran
cisco is in tho city for the same purpose. He is
said to be the first manufacturer from the Pa
cifc coast who has come to this market to buy
hard wood lumber.
The Eagle Machine Works Company will next
week commence removing into their new and
commodious buildings, corner OF Kentucky ave-
nue. and Missouri street Work on Pogue's run
Improvement cannot be commenced until they
are out of their old buildings, a portion of which
must come down before the contractors
commence operations.
W. Fl. Coleman, manufacturer of slaves and
heading, returned yesterday from the East.
where he effected large sales OF his products He
has manufactures at other points in the State
than Indianapolis and is preparing to enlarge
them, he occupying now all the room he has in
his Indianapolis factory. At Veedersburg. Ind,
he will make large additions TO his works next
month.
Dustin e. Murphy, of Kissimmee, Fla, recently
sent brick of their manufacture by new process
to this city to be tested to their strength and
durability. Tests were made yesterday at the
shops in Brightwood, and the brick sustained a
pressure of thirty tons. This invention promises
to solve the problem how to get brick Florida
for buildings. In that state there is no freezing
and thawing. and it would that brick
which Will bear thirty-ton pressure will last
for generations in that climate